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'Something Biblical Is Approaching' - Here Are The Scenarios Of The Collapse

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“‘Something Biblical Is Approaching’ - 
Here Are The Scenarios Of The Collapse”
by Tuomas Malinen
 
2019 has started more calmly after a very volatile year-end in the markets. Focus has been on the trade deal between China and the US and the words of the central bankers, most notably those of Jay Powell. However, this is all just a distraction, a side-show. The market volatility was only the first sign of an approaching global economic crisis, as we warned in December 2017.
 
As the recent PMI figures across the globe show, a global downturn has started and the world is utterly unprepared for it. The global imbalances that have been growing for years cannot lead to anything else than a global crisis. However, there are different paths the crisis could take.
 
Here, we present three scenarios that the global economy is likely to follow, when the global downturn morphs into something much more sinister. We’ll start with the most likely scenario: Global Depression.
 
Scenario I: Global Depression: In a depression, everything that has been driven the economic expansion goes into reverse. Asset markets experience severe contraction (in excess of 50 percent), credit becomes restricted, corporations and households de-lever fiercely, and global trade flows stall (for more details see Q-review 2/2018). GDP falls dramatically, between 10 to 25 percent. Unemployment skyrockets. The standard means of stimulus by central banks and governments are exhausted without any notable improvement in the economic environment.
 
The implosion of the current asset bubble will start a relentless unwinding of leverage and risk in the global financial system. Because major central banks are still “all-in” with rates pinned at or near historic lows, and balance sheets bloated to extreme levels, their ability to respond will be highly restricted. Governments are also highly-indebted, and when interest rates rise, some sovereigns are likely to default, aggravating the global banking crisis, which will probably be in motion already. Combined with the zombified global business sector and a hard landing in China, these factors will lead the world economy into a depression. However, a possibility of something even more ominous is lurking in the background.
 
Scenario II: Systemic Meltdown: Systemic crisis would mean that the global financial melts down due to an existential deficit of trust between counter-parties within the system. (And here the $2.5 QUADRILLION in derivatives will deal the fatal blow. – CP) Before 2008, a systemic meltdown was mostly a theoretical construct. However, in mid-October in 2008, global leaders were faced with the possibility that banks would not open on Monday. The interbank markets had frozen, because no one knew the amount of the losses banks carried on their books. The global financial system was grinding to a halt. Politicians and central bankers saved the day by guaranteeing bank deposits and by providing capital and extraordinary guarantees to keep the important financial institutions standing and credit flowing.
 
Now the problem is that many of these measures are already in play and when the next crisis hits, the solvency of governments and central banks will also be in question. This creates a perilous situation because, for example, the shares of the global systemically important banks, G-SIBs, have been falling since the beginning of last year, which was also the time when the balance sheet normalization (QT) program of the Fed kicked into full gear. This is no coincidence and it implies that troubles are, once again, brewing in the banking sector.
 
Because a crash in the asset values would affect the collateral of banks and because global depression would lead to a massive increase in loan losses, the already-impaired banking sector could, again, face collapse. However, this time around, there is very little authorities can do to stem the panic. These factors make the systemic meltdown an ominously-likely scenario.
 
Systemic meltdown would mean that all banking actions, distribution of money, loans, swaps, banking services, etc., through the banking sector would stop. Credit cards would cease to function, ATMs would not give out money and loans could not be originated or rolled-over. Following the likely collapse of global trade, the world economy would also collapse. This would imply that the global GDP would experience a harrowing fall of 20 to 40 percent. Modern societies would cease to exist in their current form.
 
Scenario III: The fairy tale: Could this all be averted somehow? We’ve been pondering this for two years now, and our resounding answer is no. The leverage in the system usually results in a crash at some point, and asset bubbles very rarely deflate in a controlled manner. However, CBs can probably still postpone the inevitable, if they could re-start QE programs or find some other way to push artificial central bank liquidity into the financial markets.
 
To soften the eventual blow, and as an extremely desperate measure, central banks could, at least in theory, engage in a “QE-squared”. In it, major central banks would buy a hefty chunk of global risk assets, estimated to total $400 trillion. This would mean that the balance sheet of major CBs would need to expand at least five-fold from the current level of approximately $20 trillion. To cover the crippling losses to their collective balance sheets that these purchases would be likely to inflict, they would need to use their money-printing ability to paper them over.
 
Central banks earn seigniorage-revenue from all the money they create. This is the difference between the nominal value and the production costs of the money. Because production costs of digital entries are very close to zero, the seigniorage revenue CBs receive from each entry is close to 1-to-1. Still, this would mean that they would need to create new money in the range of tens of trillions of US dollars. By comparison, in 2017, the global nominal GDP of the world was approximately $75 trillion.
 
To distribute such incomprehensible sums of new money, central banks would need to give it directly to consumers and governments. Even in normal circumstances, the production side of the economy would be unlikely to be able to respond to such a massive increase in (artificially created) demand, and this time there would have been wide-spread corporate bankruptcies driven by global depression. A hyper-inflation would be likely to follow.
 
There’s also the alternative that CBs would make a complete U-turn and continue to backstop market losses. This would be the “way of Japan”, where the BoJ already owns over 40% of the sovereign bond universe. It would eventually mean the effective nationalization of capital markets which would continue to function in name only.
 
We have no historical experience with what the expropriation of modern capital markets would cause. However, it would be unlikely to be anything good as capital markets have been around for several centuries, and they are extremely important in allocating financial capital efficiently. If central banks take a permanent active role in the capital markets, it would lead to financial market socialism. It would be likely to bring similar horrors as regular socialism in the form of lost incentives (breaking down of the risk-reward relationship) and inflated asset values. It is unlikely that global central bankers would be willing, or that they would be allowed, to do so.
 
The Endgame Nears: The global balance sheet of central banks turned in August 2018 (see Figure1). This marks the start of global QT and thus the end of the most reckless monetary policy experiment in history.
Figure 1. The combined balance sheets of the Bank of Japan, European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve during 2018. Source: GnS Economics, BoJ, ECB, Fed
 
When this is combined with the slow-down in China, the engine of the world economy since 2008 (see Figure 2), we have finally entered the endgame of at the current business cycle. The desperate measures of central bankers and China enacted after the financial crisis have pushed the global debt and financial alchemy to never-seen heights. The global financial system has become rigged with leverage, moral hazard and regulatory failures to a point where a “purge” has become all-but-impossible to avoid. This is the end.
Figure 2. Gross capital formation in Australia, Canada, China, euro area, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States in constant (2010) US dollars. Sources: GnS Economics, World Bank
 
Fortunately, even depressions and systemic crises have the tendency to bottom-out and recover. This is driven by resiliency. Even when faced by cataclysmic economic shock, businesses and people try to move forward, and rebuild their lives. Societies just do not spiral into anarchy and mayhem, even if the system should break down. Still, every company, household and government should start to make contingency plans. Something ‘biblical’ is approaching.


Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/01/something-biblical-is-approaching-here.html



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    • tonyw

      One thing you can bet on is that those rich people and many corporations will manage to shift the debt to the ordinary man / woman.. working people are easily controlled by debt and the threat of loosing it all

    • jknbt

      David Rockefeller orchestrated a major stock market crash every seven years starting in 1973 & 1980, We are still getting over the mess he made in 2007-2008. He had help with his fed reserve banker bros that own the Federal Reserve & its banks. By doing this, Chase bank has become the biggest bank in the world, & he plus his banker buds all became multi-billionaires. Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, and Citi bank have all grown enormously through this manipulation, Rockefeller died, & guess what? The stock market resets stopped. We have been due one since 2015, so we are very over-due, They did this to soak up all the federal reserve baseless fiat money they print out of thin air, They crashed the stock markets to let the little people take the loss. The super-rich strategy is to pump up the market, dump their stocks at the peak, crash the market, & buy them all back at the bottom (good old pump-n-dump), If an individual stock broker does this for a single stock, they will get caught by the Feds for this felony, These people doing this are big enough that nobody will touch them, Old man John D Rockefeller did this by creating the stock market crash of 1929, He doubled his money in one year doing this, Burn in hell, John, until your pile of dollar bills that is roasting your rich ass burns up,

      If the super-rich don’t crash the stock market again, the alternative is hyper-inflation. This is the only other safety valve for all that bogus fiat money, Look at Venezuela, They have an inflation rate of 800,000%. The super-rich don’t want this, because they know it will deflate the value of their money also, The super-rich have set up a fiat money printing machine called the federal reserve in every country in the world, Now the value of money is distorted world-wide, For example, the Nigerian Naira has dropped in value by 90% in the last 30 years due to fiat printing of money, Even the Swiss & Chinese have this machine set up, That is why there is a special currency only for internal use by their citizens and a separate currency for foreign exchange, They know how to play the game to win so their people don’t get hurt, The geniuses that run the US will never figure this out.

      The sheeple out there don’t realize how broke the US is, The debt is 47 trillion dollars, That means that you could put everything in the country out on the street & sell it in a national yard sale, & it still would not pay off the debt, Every family knows that the endgame for insane, reckless overspending is bankruptcy, Then someone else has to take the loss, That won’t work with the US on a national basis, What will happen is the young people will give up on democracy & capitalism, and elect someone as sanguine as Franklin Roosevelt that is an amoral dictator like Hitler down inside, What a nightmare.

      The third alternative is war, When a small shop is about to go bankrupt & take the owner into bankruptcy also, a common solution is to burn the store down, They will say “the insurance got hot” as they call in the insurance man for a settlement. All the inventory shown on the books (but long ago stolen, “burns up”), and the insurance company takes the loss, Let’s hope the deep state doesn’t order a war to blot out the debt. These people are wicked enough to kill 200 million Americans and a billion other people in the world just to keep from losing some of their precious money. Hellfire is waiting for these people. They have no fear of God.

      It is going to be an interesting year….yee-haw…

    • jknbt

      same comment plus a few edits…enjoy!

      Endgame scenarios for bogus economies

      So where is the long overdue market reset everyone has been warning us about? David Rockefeller orchestrated a major stock market crash every seven years starting in 1973 & 1980. We are still getting over the mess he made in 2007-2008. He had help with his fed reserve banker bros that own the Federal Reserve & its banks. By doing this, Chase bank has become the biggest bank in the world, & he plus his banker buds all became multi-billionaires. Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, and Citi bank have all grown enormously through this manipulation. Rockefeller died, & guess what? The stock market resets stopped. We have been due one since 2015, so we are very over-due. They did this to soak up all the federal reserve baseless fiat money they print out of thin air. They crashed the stock markets to let the little people take the loss. The super-rich strategy is to pump up the market, dump their stocks at the peak, crash the market, & buy them all back at the bottom (good old pump-n-dump). If an individual stock broker does this for a single stock, they will get caught by the Feds and put in jail for this felony (see the Wolf of Wall Street movie about Gordon Gekko). These people doing this are big enough that nobody will ever touch them. Old man John D Rockefeller did this by creating the stock market crash of 1929. He doubled his money in one year doing this. Burn in hell, John, until your pile of dollar bills you stole from poor and working people that is roasting your rich ass burns up. Enjoy the company of grandson David, who is no doubt in the jail cell next to yours. Was it worth it? Really?

      If the super-rich don’t crash the stock market again, one grim alternative is hyper-inflation. This is the worst sort of safety valve for all that bogus fiat money. Look at Venezuela. They have an inflation rate of 800,000%. The super-rich don’t want this, because they know it will deflate the value of their money also. The super-rich have set up a fiat money printing machine called the federal reserve in every country in the world. Now the value of money is distorted world-wide. For example, the Nigerian Naira has dropped in value by 90% in the last 30 years due to fiat printing of money. Even the Swiss & Chinese have this machine set up. That is why there is a special currency only for internal use by their citizens and a separate currency for foreign exchange. They know how to play the game to win so their people don’t get hurt. The geniuses that run the US will never figure this out.

      The sheeple out there don’t realize how broke the US is. The debt is 47 trillion dollars. That means that you could put everything in the country out on the street & sell it in a national yard sale, & it still would not pay off the debt. Every family knows that the endgame for insane, reckless overspending is bankruptcy. Then someone else has to take the loss. That won’t work with the US on a national basis. What will happen is the young people will give up on democracy & capitalism, and elect someone as sanguine as Franklin Roosevelt that is an amoral dictator like Hitler down inside. What a nightmare.

      The third alternative is war. When a small shop is about to go bankrupt & take the owner into bankruptcy also, a common solution is to burn the store down. They will say “the insurance got hot” as they call in the insurance man for a settlement. All the inventory shown on the books (but long ago stolen) “burns up”, and the insurance company takes the loss. Let’s hope the deep state doesn’t order a war to blot out the debt. These people are wicked enough to kill 200 million Americans and a billion other people in the world just to keep from losing some of their precious money. Hellfire is waiting for these people. They have no fear of God.

      It is going to be an interesting year….yee-haw…

    • Slimey

      Have not practiced Jubilee years. Every 50th year declared a jubilee. We would have no debt or a manageable one that would keep wealth and money sound.

      Instead, they make it worse by printing more money, more interest, more taxes more phony debt hoping it will go away. Well, it won’t. You just stuffed more powder into the keg. :cool:

    • Man

      These perpetual fear porn stories are so boring

    • No time

      What about Bitcoin?

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